Bush Library, yay or nay

In my archives program, we've been following the debate over the Bush Presidential Library finding its home at Southern Methodist University. It's a much more interesting situation than I originally thought.

There would be two parts - a presidential library that would, supposedly, be non-partisan, but there would also be a policy institute that would have as it's goal the 'promotion of the Bush philosophy.'

Many of the faculty at SMU are protesting the Bush Library for this reason. There is also an attempt to get SMU to insist that Bush rescind Executive Order 13233 before allowing his Presidential Library to be built there.

You can read the most recent article about this at Inside Higher Ed.

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I've spent the past month pondering what sort of costume I want/can make for Dragon*con. I've had the idea that I'd like to do one of the cat/nuns from the New Earth episode of Doctor Who but I wasn't sure how to do the face. After a ways and means conversation with eve11, I decided to go ahead with it. So now I have a costume to start working on! Now I just have to find the time/money/know-how to do it. *vbg*